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Originally Posted by johnung
If you read through the forum there is little fear of manufacturers posting inaccurate specs. It's mostly examples of companies posting incomplete specs or none at all. Often with huge amounts of slick marketing materials with wondrous claims.
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On that subject, when I design a speaker I build a prototype and thoroughly test it before finalizing the design for the company that commissioned it. I always provide the complete test data to the company. I've never seen any of them publish it. For that matter most company owners don't know what the data means. If they did they wouldn't have to hire me to design their speakers.
What they do care about is the profit margin. They have a target retail price. They seldom tell me to come up with the best sounding speaker possible that they can sell at that price. They usually tell me to come up with the lowest possible build cost that sounds good enough to sell at that price.